angry
Syllables: an·gry[ˈɛŋ-]UK/ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/
angry adjective: displaying or feeling anger.
Adjective
angry (comparative angrier or more angry, superlative angriest or most angry)
- Displaying or feeling anger.
- His face became angry.
- An angry mob started looting the warehouse.
- Synonyms:
- upset, mad, enraged, wrathful, furious, apoplectic, irritated, annoyed, vexed, pissed off
- Inflamed and painful.
- The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
- Dark and stormy, menacing.
- Angry clouds raced across the sky.
- […]nor dreads he the angry sea[…]1756, Christopher Smart, “Ode II”, in The Book of the Epodes, translation of original by Horace
Noun
angry (plural angries)
- An angry person.
- Maybe I just have a thick skin from years of newsgroup use, but hey, it is a forum where all kinds of people come, and its not like you have to take the anonymous kooks or the angries too seriously (they don't live next door to me or hang out in my office).2001 October 14, Mary Gordon, “SUPPORT”, in alt.support.alzheimers (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2026
- He knows the young buffalos who bitch beyond reasonable bitching but still do the job, and he knows the angries, the men who never seem to feel good about themselves because of the seemingly endless struggle against an unrealistic bureaucracy that demands so much of them and offers so little in the...2001 November 16, Lenny Stover, quoting Harry T. O'Reilly, “ONLY A COP”, in alt.law-enforcement (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2026
Verb
angry (third-person singular simple present angries, present participle angrying, simple past and past participle angried)
- To anger.
- Onely they that repent, and are verie ſorie that they haue angried God with their ſinnes, and yet truſt that they are forgiuẽ them for Chriſtes ſake, and that the reſt of their weakeneſſe and vnperfectnes is couered with his deth & paſſion, who alſo deſire to goe forwarde and growe more and more in...1578, The Cathechisme or Manner How to Instruct and Teach Children and Others in the Christian Faith. […], London: […] Henrie Middleton, for Iohn Harison
- The King ſent to the Londoners requeſting to borrowe of them one thouſande pounde, whiche they ſtoutely denyed, and alſo euil entreated, bette and néere hand ſlew a certain Lumbard that woulde haue lent the King the ſayde ſumme, which when the King heard he was maruellouſly angried, and calling...1580, Iohn Stow (collector), The Chronicles of England, from Brute vnto This Present Yeare of Christ 1580., London: […] Ralphe Newberie, […], page 512
angry meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
angry in Hindi
- displaying anger
- रूठा rūṭhā, क्रोधित krodhit, नाराज़ nārāz, ग़ुस्सा ġussā
angry in Tamil
- displaying anger
- கோபமான kōpamāṉa
angry in Marathi
- displaying anger
- रागवलेले rāgavlele, क्रोधित krodhit
angry in Urdu
- displaying anger
- روٹھا rūṭhā, ناراض nārāz
More languagesFewer languages
- angry in Bengali
- উত্তেজিত uttejito, রাগী ragi
- angry in Telugu
- కోపం kōpaṁ, ఆగ్రహం āgrahaṁ, క్రోధం krōdhaṁ
- angry in Malayalam
- ദേഷ്യപ്പെട്ട
- angry in Kannada
- ಸಿಟ್ಟಾದ, ಕೆರಳಿದ, ಕೋಪಗೊಂಡ, ಸಿಡುಕಿನ
- angry in Punjabi
- ਗੁੱਸਾ gussā
- angry in Sanskrit
- कुपित kupita
- angry in Nepali
- क्रोधित krodhit
- angry in Tagalog
- galit
- angry in Arabic
- غَاضِب ḡāḍib, غَضْبَان ḡaḍbān
- angry in Malay
- marah
- angry in Indonesian
- marah
- angry in Persian
- خشمگین xašmgin, عصبانی 'asabâni
- angry in Thai
- โกรธ gròot
- angry in Vietnamese
- giận, tức
- angry in Myanmar
- စိတ်ဆိုး cithcui:
Examples of angry in a sentence
- But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
- Cone, who once called himself “the angriest theologian in America,” is still angry.2018 April 30, John Blake, “Remembering the theologian who took on the hypocrisy of the white church”, in CNN, archived from the original...
- Never, ever underestimate the firepower of an almighty swarm of angry Fletchers.2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 41:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the...
- All considered, never going to bed angry sounds like a good rule to live by.2025 May 16, Kristen Rogers, “The surprising benefits of going to bed angry at your partner”, in CNN, archived from the original on 14 Jun...
Synonyms of angry
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Forms of angry
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | angrier |
| comparative | more angry |
| superlative | angriest |
| superlative | most angry |
| Noun | |
| plural | angries |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | angries |
| present participle | angrying |
| past participle | angried |
| past | angried |
Origin of angry
From Middle English angry, equivalent to anger + -y; see anger.
Words formed from angry
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Words that rhyme with angry
Questions about angry
- What does angry mean?
- Angry means displaying or feeling anger.
- What is angry in Hindi?
- Angry in Hindi is रूठा (rūṭhā), क्रोधित (krodhit), नाराज़ (nārāz). See Angry meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use angry in a sentence?
- But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
- What part of speech is angry?
- Angry can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce angry?
- Angry is pronounced /ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/ (UK).
Words near angry in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: angry (page history and authors); angry (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); angry (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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